DISK / CLub Transmediale: NEWS

INTERNSHIP OFFER

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:30:00 +0200

We are currently looking for an intern to support our team for CTM 2011 in the fields of communication, editorial office, research. The description is in German as very good German language skills are mandatory.

CTM � festival for adventurous music and related visual arts sucht eine/n Praktikantin/en von Oktober 2010 � M�rz 2011 zur Unterst�tzung der Programm- und Textredaktion sowie der �ffentlichkeitsarbeit im Hinblick auf die Festivalausgabe CTM.11, die vom 01. - 06. Februar 2011 in Berlin stattfinden wird.

Das j�hrlich stattfindende CTM-Festival pr�sentiert einen umfassenden �berblick herausragender, aktueller internationaler Produktionen elektronischer und experimenteller Musik in eine Mischung aus Konzerten, Live-Performances und Club-Veranstaltungen. Ein Rahmenprogramm aus Diskussionsrunden, Workshops, Pr�sentationen, Videoscreenings und Kunstinstallationen widmet sich technologischen, gesellschaftlichen und k�nstlerischen Fragestellungen innerhalb der Musikkultur. CTM besch�ftigt sich schwerpunktm��ig mit den k�nstlerischen Aspekten aktueller Musikproduktion, sowie mit der gesellschaftlichen Rolle von Musik im Kontext der �elektronischen� und �digitalen Kultur�.

Bewerbungen (Anschreiben, Motivationsschreiben inkl. Nennung der Interessensgebiete, Lebenslauf, Foto) bitte per Email an Tania Wehrs

� Email

HAUPTAUFGABENBEREICHE

� Redaktion von Presse-, Katalogtexten

� Onlineredaktion / Betreuung und Aktualisierung der Homepage

� Redkation Email-Newsletter

� Recherche

� Community-Betreuung in sozialen Netzwerken

� Unterst�tzung bei der Koordination der Katalogproduktion

� Unterst�tzung �ffentlichkeitsarbeit (Erstellung von Werbematerialien/Drucksachen, Merchandising)

� Erstellen eines Pressespiegels uvm.

Der Bewerber/die Bewerberin sollte idealerweise �ber ein abgeschlossenes Grundstudium bzw. Bachelorstudium im Bereich Kultur-, Musik- bzw. Medienwissenschaften oder �hnliches verf�gen.

W�NSCHENSWERTE QUALIFIKATIONEN

� sehr gutes sprachliches Ausdrucksverm�gen in Deutsch

� gute Englischkenntnisse

� strukturiertes Arbeiten

� gute Kenntnisse von Office (insbesondere Word, Excel), Bildbearbeitung (Photoshop) und Internetrecherche

� erste Erfahrungen mit einem Content Management System (nicht Bedingung)

� Flexibilit�t und Bereitschaft zum Teamwork

� Interesse und wenn m�glich Kenntnisse im Bereich zeitgen�ssischer Musik, Medien- und Bildender Kunst

DAS PRAKTIKUM BIETET

� Vertiefung von Kenntnissen redaktioneller Arbeit, z.B. Verfassen und Redigieren von Textmaterialien f�r diverse Bereiche der Kommunikation (Web, Katalog, Presse)

� vertiefende Kenntnisse im Bereich �ffentlichkeitsarbeit

� einen Einblick in die Produktionsabl�ufe eines Festivals

� Mitwirkung und Teilnahme an Veranstaltungen von DISK/club transmediale sowie am Festival CTM.11

� Austausch und Kontakt mit internationalen K�nstlern und K�nstlerinnen

T�TIGKEITSZEITRAUM

25. Oktober 2010 bis Februar/M�rz 2011

VERG�TUNG

Es wird eine monatliche Verg�tung von 100 � gezahlt. Der Arbeitsaufwand betr�gt im Schnitt 4 Tage pro Woche.

ECAS � FESTIVAL AS LAB � OPEN CALL

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:59:00 +0200

ECAS � Networking Tomorrow�s Art For An Unknown Future is a new European festivals network, supported by the European Union within the CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013).

To launch the ECAS network, a Euro 10,000 Commission is available for a new project responding to the ECAS 2011 theme of Festival as Lab.

This call for proposals seeks projects that take the form of an experiment, a prototype or a trial of a new type of art object, technology or form of participation.

The commissioned project will receive a Euro 5,000 fee, up to Euro 5,000 production costs, plus additional limited staging costs and support.

Proposals that do not win the commission may still be considered for inclusion in the ECAS festivals and will automatically be considered for other sources of support. All will receive full marketing benefits, management and network support.

The deadline for submissions is 24th October 2010.

PRESENTATION AT ECAS FESTIVALS

Presentation at ECAS Festivals The successful project will be shown at the festivals CTM (Berlin, February 2011), FutureEverything (Manchester, May 2011) and CYNETART (Dresden, November 2011).

CTM will present work-in-progress, FutureEverything will present the full project, and CYNETART will either present the full project or a version of the project.

ELIGIBILITY

Submissions must be new works and must respond directly to the Festival as Lab theme.

To be eligible the project must be:
� An experiment, test, prototype or trial
� Presenting a new type of art object, technology or form of participation
� A new project that has not been realised
� Using the setting of the festival in an inventive way

Projects can work with sound or any other artistic or technical medium.

Examples of anticipated project types:
� A city-wide participatory art-research project using the digital, physical and human infrastructure of a festival.
� An open workshop involving experimental cultural activities which simultaneously serves to document and evaluate those activities.

FESTIVAL AS LAB THEME

In its first year, the theme of the ECAS festival network is Festival as Lab.

The theme Festival as Lab is inspired by the FutureEverything festival, which is conceived and designed as a 'living lab' for prototyping the future.

The ECAS festivals are experimental spaces or laboratories where we can experiment and play with future art, music and ideas.

We are looking for projects that engage the festival audience and artists in a participatory experiment in creating a new kind of artwork, a new form of participation, new understanding on art or technology, or a new and innovative way of presenting inspirational art.

Proposals should experiment with the festival format, transforming the festival environment into a lab or experimental space.

The ECAS festivals network is looking at this unique approach where festivals act as experimental spaces for new cultural forms, new technologies, and new modes of audience engagement.

It is optional not essential that proposals involve collaboration with scientists and social scientists as well as audience groups and ethnographers to inform future project design.

We will favour proposals which promote the concept of the �active participant� over traditional assumptions about passive audiences, and seek to involve audiences integrally in the project.

JURY

� Drew Hemment, FutureEverything
� Jan Rohlf, CTM � Club Transmediale
� Thomas Dumke, CYNETART

HOW TO SUBMIT

The submission process is handled by FutureEverything. In order to submit a project, please you will have to register with the Futureverything website. For all details and the online submission form, please > go here.

WHAT IS ECAS?

ECAS is a new European festivals network supported by the European Union within the CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013) which strives to create collaborative partnership between the international festivals.

The focus in ECAS is upon cultural festivals and events that support emerging cultural forms and new forms of audience participation. Beginning in 2006, the ECAS network has brought together a large number of cultural events from different EU countries with a commitment to supporting and nurturing cultural connections through advanced sound. It has given rise to International (ICAS) and Americas (ACAS) partner networks.

Over the past 15 years new art forms and new forms of cultural event have emerged which are crucibles for an emerging and ever changing European cultural identity. These are characterised by their innovative and early adoption of digital technologies, placing them at the forefront of the digital revolution. These art forms and events developed in a 'bottom up' manner, rather than through the patronage of established educational and cultural institutions, and have, as a result, focussed on inclusion and empowerment. They are both hyper local and inherently international, involving specific sub-cultural groups that are globally dispersed.

ECAS is a co-production between:

� FutureEverything � FutureEverything Manchester (GB)
� Skanu Mezs Festival � Association Skanu Mezs Riga (LV)
� Unsound � Tone Foundation for Music and New Art Forms Krakow (PL)
� Todaysart � Stichting The Generator The Hague (NL)
� musikprotokoll � Osterreichischer Rundfunk ORF Vienna (A)
� Insomnia Festival � Stiftelsen Insomnia Festival Tromso (N)
� CIMATICS Festival � Cimatics v.z.w. Brussels (BE)
� CYNETART Festival � Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. Dresden (DE)
� CTM � DISK (Initative Bild & Ton e.V.) Berlin (DE)

Supported by the European Union within the CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013).

PROJECT 1051

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:18:00 +0200

// Date: September 11 & 12 and October 26 & 28, 2010
// Venues: Sophiensaele and Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin

Since its opening in February 1999, the cultural centre Batofar in Paris considered the European dimension of its agenda one of its biggest priorities. The activities of Batofar imagine new forms of international citizenship in an everyday practise.

With the focus on Paris and Berlin, the initiative PROJECT 1051 � A European Creation Of Hip Hop Music And Visual Arts, realised in collaboration with DISK/CTM and Sophiensaele, brings together Parisian musicians La Caution and Berlin video artists Transforma to create a multidisciplinary work of art, which wants to raise questions about European identity and the City as a concept.

Refering to the amount of road kilometers between the two cities, the project is called 'Project 1051'. The collective work of La Caution/Transforma is conceived, created and presented both in Paris and Berlin between June and October 2010. This process goes along with a series of actions addressing the local audiences such as artistic workshops, club nights and meetings.

PROGRAM IN BERLIN

Workshop

// Date: Saturday, 11th and Sunday, 12th September 2010, 11am to 5 pm
// Venue: Sophiensaele
// Participants: 10 people aged 16 to 25
// Registration fee: 15 �

In the framework of 'Project 1051' ten young Parisians created a short movie based on their vision of their city: the major feelings the city inspired them with (crowd and solitude/ loneliness, multicultural influences, stress, urban arts�) led them to shoot and record sequences that they edited with the help of the artists from Transforma and La Caution.

Within two days, young Berliners (16-25) will now create a film similar to the one of the Paris workshop � a film based on their own vision of Berlin. This workshop will be conducted by the artists involved Luke Bennett and Simon Krahl from Transforma/Berlin, and Ahmed Mazouz and Mohamed Mazouz from La Caution/Paris.

Information and registration: info@sophiensaele.com

Talk

// Date: October 26, 2010, 19:30
// Venue: Sophiensaele

Luke Bennett & Simon Krahl (Transforma Berlin) and Ahmed Mazouz & Mohamed Mazouz (La Caution Paris) in conversation with Camille Duthuit (Batofar, Paris), Remco Schuurbiers, Jan Rohlf (DISK/CTM, Berlin) und Dr. Susanne Stemmler (HKW, Berlin).

Club Night

// Date: 28 October 2010, 22:00
// Venue: Maria am Ostbahnhof

Presentation of the installation:
'Projekt 1051' by La Caution / Transforma.

Concerts, DJ-sets & visuals by:
� La Caution [FR] - Live
� D�bruit [FR] - Live
� Ill Till [DE] - Live
� Phon.o [DE] - DJ
� Superclub DJ�s [DE] - DJ
� VJ MFO [DE]

ARTISTS

Transforma
Transforma is an artist group whose work focuses on video, performance, installations and music/video collisions. Transforma's work has been performed live and shown at festivals around the world. It is always highly rhythmic, digital yet handcrafted and visually challenging. Transforma collaborates with other artists and musicians to create pieces that blur borders of established genres in live performance, art & music.
> www.transforma.de

La Caution
Armed with a unique musical identity, the two brothers Hi‐Tekk and Nikkfurie made a solid reputation for themselves by relentlessly touring and taking part in numerous albums, projects and movie soundtracks (Oceans Twelve, �Paris je t�aime� by Gus Van Sant, etc.) since 1996. Their interest for image also took the shape of video directing. With their EP and LP�s, their energetic sounds and outstanding lyrics, they imposed themselves as one of the most atypical and innovative band in the French Hip Hop scene.
> www.myspace.com/lacaution

MORE INFORMATION

> www.batofar.org
> www.sophiensaele.com

A project by Le Batofar, Eclairages, DISK/CTM and Sophiensaele. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, European Cultural Foundation, Culturfrance, Minist�re
de la culture et de la communication - DICR�AM and Jugendwerks. Deutsch-Franz�sisches Jugendwerk. With the firednly support of ParisBerlin.

CTM & UNSOUND PRESENT LUSTMORD

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:45:00 +0200

This October, Legendary sound artist Lustmord will play live for the second time in almost three decades. He will appear at the 2010 edition of the Unsound Festival in Krakow and, supported by Brooklyn based artist Oneothrix Point Never, at Berghain in Berlin.

Brian Williams, the man behind Lustmord, began working under that name in 1980, and since then his dark sound sculptures have been highly influential not only in music genres such as ambient and industrial, but also in film and games.

Oppressive and frightening, richly textured and painstakingly produced, Lustmord�s music has also made use of field recordings from locations such as caves, crypts and slaughterhouses. His first self-titled album "Lustmord" was released in 1981 and was produced in collaboration with Peter Christopherson and John Balance of Coil and Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions. Since, he has released 13 more albums under the name Lustmord, and for many 1990's "Heresy" stands as Lustmord�s key work, acknowledged as having given birth to the "dark ambient" genre.

He has collaborated with the likes of Tool, The Melvins, Chris & Cosey (Throbbing Gristle), SPK (he actually was a member for some time), Greame Revell, Coil, Paul Haslinger (Tangerine Dream), Robert Rich, Clock DVA, Current 93 and Nurse with Wound amongst others. He is also a member of Puscifer, the music project of Maynard James Keenan, the lead singer of Tool and A Perfect Circle. He has done remixes for Tool, Jarboe (Swans), Venetian Snares, Lori Carson, Mortiis, Isis, Puscifer and Nadja. He has also worked for many years as a music sound designer in Hollywood,with credits on over 40 movies such as "The Crow" and "Underworld", as well as computer games (FarCry: Instincts, Unreal Tournament III, Assassins Creed etc.).

Lustmord's latest full album release Other was released through Hydrahead in 2008. His first live concert in 25 years took place in June 2006 as part of a service to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Church of Satan (released as Rising on Vaultworks). Now he will come to Europe for two exclusive concerts:

The Unsound concert is scheduled to take place on 22.10.2010 and aptly enough is part of Unsound�s 2010 theme: Horror, the Pleasure of Fear and Unease.
Lustmord performs on the same bill as Moritz von Oswlad Trio and Hildur Gu�nad�ttir + Adam Wiltzie (of Stars of The Lid). The event will take place in Kino Kijow, a cinema and landmark piece of 60s communist-era architecture in Krakow, Poland.

The Berlin concert is scheduled for 27.10.2010 within Berghain's "Elektroakustischer Salon" series. Support act will be Oneothrix Point Never (see also http://www.pointnever.com), a Brooklyn based drone/noise/hypnagogic/syntheziser artist of raising fame, whose fourth album Returnal has just been released by Editions Mego and was produced by James Plotkin.
Ticket sale has already started > get tickets here

> Lustmord on Myspace
> Lustmord on Twitter
> Lustmord on imdb

CTM & UNSOUND PRESENT GOBLIN

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:35:00 +0200

Italian legends Goblin are to play Unsound 2010, with original members Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante, Maurizio Guarini plus Bruno Previtali and Titta Tani of Demonia included in the lineup.
Goblin are best known for the creation of unique and influential soundtracks to classic horror films by Italian director Dario Argento. These include 1975�s "Profondo Rosso" ("Deep Red") and 1977�s "Suspiria", remarkable for its experimental sounds and creepy vocals. Goblin also scored George A. Romero�s "Dawn of the Dead".
Although Goblin reformed in 2009 to play five shows, this current line up marks the first time co-founder Claudio Simonetti has performed with the band live in many years. The show will include visuals from Dario Argento movies, to be re-mixed live by a Norwegian visual artist soon to be announced.
Goblin�s performance is scheduled for 23.10.2010.
Goblin�s appearance is part of the Unsound 2010 theme "Horror � The Pleasure of Fear and Unease". The project is presented with Norway�s Insomnia Festival and Iceland�s Rejkiavik Round-Up and presents itself with an extraordinary line-up and many special shows including Ben Frost and the Krakow Sinfonietta to perform to Tarkovsky's "Solaris", Zombie Zombie play John Carpenter, Shining, Emeralds, Monno, Tim Hecker, Oneohtrix Point Never, Hildur Gu�nad�ttir, Mordant Music, Kreng and many others. Club nights include Lindstrom, Joy Orbison, Mount Kimbie, Falty DL and more.
Check out the full program on the Unsound webpage.

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE AND MUDBOY AT ISEA2010

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:28:00 +0200

DISK / CTM has been invited to contribute to the concert program of ISEA2010 RUHR, the International Symposium on Electronic Art and one of the most important festivals for digital and electronic art.

For the Konzerthaus Dortmund on August 26th, our pick is Mudboy, who will perform a specially composed piece on the organ in collaboration with Petter Schuette. The second concert of the evening will be a solo performance of the exceptional guitarist Fennesz.

Following his fantastic organ-concert in Berlin's French Cathedral during CTM.10, we invited Charlemagne Palestine for a solo concert on the Seifert organ of the St. Maximilian Church in Duisburg-Ruhrort on Saturday August 28th.

And of course we will be also visiting ISEA personally between August 26th and 28th. So if you want to meet-up, don't hesitate to get in touch.

MUDBOY /w PETER SCHUETTE, FENNESZ

Date: August 26, 20:30
// Venue: Konzerthaus Dortmund

Mudboy, the "doctor of organology" as he calls himself, creates music from all kinds of everyday noises and sounds. Field recordings of croaks and the twitting of birds are as much part of his repertoire as narrative performances and surround sound. The organ offers him further experimental ground. An expanded and modified church organ became his hallmark. Mudboy places emphasis on repetition and turns his audience with elements of noise, drone and psychedelica into a state of trance. In a sense, calling himself a doctor thus relates not only to his musical experiments. In Dortmund he will, together with collaborator Peter Schuette, perform a newly composed piece, which he wrote especially for the organ of the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Mudboy released innumerous albums under as multitudinous labels, including the highly acclaimed This is Folk Music (Last Visible Dog, 2005) and Hungry Ghosts (Not Not Fun/Digitalis 2007). This year he released the album Impossible Duets: Collaborations Across the Void (Hundebiss records), assigning the duet its very special place within electronic music.

Peter Schuette is an american keyboardist who plays with a.o. Silk Flowers, Soiled Mattress and the Springs, or USA is a Monster.

> www.mudboymusic.com
> www.myspace.com/silkflowersnyc

The evening will proceed with Fennesz. The composer who wanders between the worlds of club culture and New Music is known for his compelling musical quality and abstract sound design. His typical reverberating guitar sound is interwoven with expansive electronic sound layers, which creates a very characteristic kind of music. The captivating electronic compositions go far beyond sterile computer arrangements and fascinate even sceptics of experimental electronic music. His long musical pieces are highly dynamic and full of suspense. Fennesz searches for the beauty of noise and dissonant elegance. For the concert at ISEA � like on his recent album Black Sea (Touch Music) � a whole range of instruments will be brought into action: acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers and other electronic devices, and a computer.

Fennesz releases on Touch Music. After Venice (2004, Touch Music) his latest
record Black Sea was released in 2009. Over time he worked with
Keith Rowe, Sparklehorse, David Sylvian, Ryoichi Sakamoto and many other artists and was a member of the trio Fenn O'Berg with Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke.

> www.fennesz.com

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE

// Date: August 28
// Venue: St. Maximilian Church in Duisburg-Ruhrort

Charlemagne Palestine creates intense, ritualistic music, which he refers to as 'resonant music', in contrast to the 'minimal music' of his peers, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. With his piano and organ works, he has developed a highly individual aesthetic centred around layered overtones, and electronic drones, which build and change gradually, gently harmonising. His performances are overtly spiritual in nature. Palestine's pieces consist of stratifications marked by an absence of linear progression by an transcendent timelessness. What we hear seems to be an excerpt from a continuum that may well ring for eternity, an infinitely extended present that makes past and future fade away.

> charlemagnepalestine.org

ISEA2010 RUHR

16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, visits the borderland of electronic and electro-acoustic music. On three evenings from 23 to
27 August 2010 the Konzerthaus Dortmund will turn into a site of musical
experiments. During ISEA2010 RUHR artists of several generations will present
their recent compositions: Apart from Mudboy and Fennesz, the program presents concerst by the pioneer of electronic music �liane Radigue, the Japanese avant-gardist Keiichiro Shibuya, and the subtle cellist Hildur Gu�nad�ttir.

ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, has been held at different cities worldwide since 1988: 2009, the venue was Belfast, 2008 the ISEA was being held in Singapure. Being one of the projects of RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture, the symposium will be for the first time in Germany this year! Apart from the ISEA2010 RUHR Concerts, a comprehensive conference program with more than one hundred speakers, keynotes, two exhibitions, the E-Culture Fair, performances, club as well as partner events with the Academy for Media Art Cologne, the Folkwang University, Essen, and the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl form part of ISEA2010 RUHR.

> isea2010ruhr.org

TRANSMEDIALE OPEN WEB AWARD 2011

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:15:00 +0200

transmediale in collaboration with Mozilla have announced the creation of the new Open Web Award 2011 a special third platform for creative excellence alongside the transmediale Award 2011 and the Vil�m Flusser Theory Award 2011.

The transmediale Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that:
- are on the web and about the web
- use open and free technology
- incite participation and/or collaboration

They can be critical, celebratory or both. Projects should have the potential to demonstrate and/or objectively critique the potential of open web issues, and those employing the creative use of HTML5 and other developing 'open' technologies will be given specific consideration. The point is to play with both the idea and materiality of the (open) web in ways that spark new thinking and practice.

The winner(s) of the Open Web Award 2011 will receive a total prize of 5000 EUR, and be given the opportunity to have 'supported' status on Drumbeat (http://drumbeat.org). Beyond the specific Open Web Award criteria, the same rules, conditions and application procedure apply as the transmediale Award 2011.

> Full information

CTM & TRANSMEDIALE 2011 CALL FOR ENTRIES NOW OPEN!

Thu, 27 May 2010 23:44:00 +0200

The transmediale Award and Vil�m Flusser Theory Award 2011 Call for Entries is now open! Deadline...

THE KNOT

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:38:00 +0200

DISK / CTM is a co-organizer and co-curator for THE KNOT, a mobile platform for artistic production and presentation that occupies different public places in the cities of Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest from end of April through October 2010, converting them into free spaces of communication and artistic laboratory. By activating public space THE KNOT discusses the treatment of art outside of protective institutions, the research about possibilities of public space and the creation of experimental space for new forms of cooperation in the digital age.

At the centre of activities is a mobile research-lab, especially designed for THE KNOT and adaptable to the different urban situations. It is used as a place of production and as venue at the same time and allows a multitude of heterogeneous functions swapping the everyday rituals of each place. The program combines on-going projects with site-specific artistic works. As work-in-progress the program is constantly updated and published on www.knotland.net

Schedule Berlin
Kulturforum: 28 April - 01 May
Mariannenplatz: 03 - 16 May
Flugfeld Tempelhof: 19 - 30 May

Schedule Warswa
Pole Mokotowskie: 17-20 June 2010
Roman Kozłowski Park: 22 June - 4 July
The garden of Pałac Konopackiego, ul. Strzelecka 11/13: 6-18 July

Schedule Bucharest
8�31 October

More information:
> www.knotland.net
> www.promised-city.org
> www.raumlabor-berlin.de

CTM CONCERTS THIS SPRING AND SUMMER

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:22:00 +0100

Check out what's in the box for 2010: CTM Concerts presents Max Richter, Hauschka, Frieder...